Gate-latch.



G. T. GORWIN.

GATE LATCH.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 17, 1913. 1,099,024 7 Patented June 2, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH C04, WASmNu'rlJN. D. i.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE '1. GORWIN, OF NEW MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

GATE-LATCH.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnonon T. Conwm, citizen of the United States, residing at New Milford, in the county of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate- Latches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gate latches.

It is the object of the invention to provide anovel latch which will positively hold the gate against movement to open position butmay be readily released. when it is desired to open the gate. In this connection one feature of the invention resides in the novel means provided for mounting the latch-bolt and in so constructing the latch as a whole that movement of the bolt into engagement with its keeper as the gate is moved to closed position will not effect the lever which is pro vided for retracting the latch-bolt so that but slight resistance is offered to the movement of the bolt as it rides into engagement with the keeper.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the latch applied to a gate, the gate being shown closed in full lines and open in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 through the latch. Fig. 3 is a detail view partly in elevation and partly in section illustrating the latch.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

In the drawings, the latch is illustrated as applied to a gate of that type adapted to fold vertically in moving to open position, and of the gate the fixed post is indicated by the numeral 1, the latch post by the numeral 3 and the connecting bars by the numeral 7. The keeper post for the gate is indicated by the numeral 19. The post 19 is formed in one face with a keeper-socket 22 and preferably has secured to its said face and surrounding the socket a keeperplate 23.

The latch-bolt is indicated by the numeral 24 and has a beveled engaging end 25 which is to seat in the keeper-socket 22 for the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 17, 1913.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Serial No. 754,901.

purpose of holding the gate in closed positlon.

As clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, the latch-bolt 24 is slidably mounted in a groove 25 formed in one face of the bar 7, the said groove being partly closed by that face of the post 3 to which the said bar is pivoted. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be apparentthat the bolt 24 is held for sliding movement within the groove 25 by means of the said post 3, and in order that it may be normally hold in extended position so as to engage the socket 22, a spring 26 is titted in the groove and bears atone end against one end-wall of the groove and at its other end against the inner end of the said bolt. The bolt 24 is designed to be retracted by means of a lever and a connection now to be described. 7

Mounted upon the bar 7 is a pin 27 and coiled about this pin is a spring 28 one end of which is secured at 29 to the said bar and the other end of which is coiled to form an eye 29 and is extended beyond the eye substantially horizontally as at 30 beside the inner end of the groove 25 and has its end bent to form a hook 31 slidaloly engaging in a slot 82 formed in the said latch-bolt 24.

A lever 33 is pivotally mounted as at 34 upon the bar 7 and works in a yoke 35 upon the said bar, this yoke limiting the swinging movement of the lever. A wire or other flexible connection 36 is connected to the lever 33 and is passed through eyes 37 upon the bar 7 and is connected at its other end to the eye 29. At this point it will be ap parent that as the gate is swung down to closed position the beveled end 25 of the latch-bolt 24 will ride over the face of the keeper post 19 and that as it does so the bolt will be moved inwardly against the tension of the spring 26. It will be apparent, however, that this movement of the bolt does not in any way affect the lever and its connect-ions for the hooked end 31 of the finger 30 slidably engages in the slot 32. However, should it be desired to retract the bolt, and swing the gate to open position, the lever 33 is swung to the left in Fig. 1 of the drawings, thereby causing the finger 30 to move rearwardly against the tension of the spring 28 of which it forms a part and such movement of the finger will result in the bolt being slid inwardly against the tension of the spring 26.

his; U in In a latch, a slidable latch-bolt, a spring I normally holding the bolt in extended posi- 1 tion, the bolt having a slot, a coil spring having one end extended to form a finger having its end engaging in the slot, and

means connected with the finger for moving the same agamst the tension of the spring whereby to retract the bolt, the bolt being 15 movable to retracted position independently of the said finger.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE T. CORWIN. [1,. s.] WVitnesses:

I. S. BUTTERFIELD, EDWARD WV. BOYLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

